R. P. Blackmur
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Richard Palmer Blackmur (January 21, 1904 – February 2, 1965) was an American literary critic and poet.
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Criticism
Saul Bellow was deliberately unkind to him when he based the snob figure of the critic Sewell on him in the novel Humboldt's Gift (1975).
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Works
- Poetry
- From Jordan's Delight 1937
- The Second World, 1942
- The Good European, 1947
- Poems of R. P. Blackmur, Princeton University Press, 1977
- Criticism
- The Double Agent: essays in craft and elucidation, 1935
- The Expense of Greatness, 1940
- Language as Gesture, 1952
- Form and value in modern poetry, Doubleday, 1952
- The Lion and the Honeycomb, 1955
- Eleven Essays in the European Novel, 1964
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